Join us this Thursday, April 13, at 6:00 pm at the Akron Art Museum for the first public poetry reading by the participants of our Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders project. The project, made possible by a major grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has allowed teaching artists from the Wick Poetry Center to engage the refugee and immigrant populations in the Akron, Ohio community in a cross-cultural, intergenerational conversation through poetry and graphic design. Working with Project Learn, Urban Vision, and the International Institute of Akron’s (IIA) refugee and i...

Kent Student Center Programming, part of the Center for Student Involvement, hosted the 13th annual Rock the Runway on March 4. The runway featured 21 collections by 24 designers, many from Kent State University’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. The Kent Student Center Ballroom was decked out in 1920s’ style with an elevated runway to showcase the designs. The Kent State University Jazz Society Quartet, made up of Kent State students, performed themed music during the show, which was hosted by sophomore communication studies major Michael Gallagher II.   The first-place coll...

Two academic scholarships are helping Kent State University fashion merchandising major Amari Thomas succeed inside and outside the classroom.     ...

Could the way flies and butterflies drink nectar and other fluids be imitated for use in medicine, potentially to deliver life-saving drugs to the human body? What if that method could save the insects own lives in times of drought? These are the kind of questions being asked in the critical research being conducted by faculty and students at Kent State University at Stark.  A study by Matthew Lehnert, assistant professor of biological sciences at Kent State Stark, shows that the method by which flies and butterflies ingest liquids into their own bodies for nourishment may be u...

The Jenkins Student-Athlete Academic Center, unveiled in Spring Semester 2017, is the latest advancement in Kent State University Intercollegiate Athletics' initiative to improve student-athlete welfare.  Located in Suite 291 of the MACC Annex, the Jenkins Student-Athlete Academic Center is a 5,000-square-foot facility with the capability of assisting more than 100 student-athletes at a given time with their academic needs. The Jenkins Student-Athlete Academic Center was named in honor of George Jenkins, a proud supporter of Kent State Intercollegiate Athletics and the provid...

EVENTS THROUGHOUT APRIL TO CELEBRATE EARTH MONTH By Hannah Wagner and Erin Zaranec Kent State University celebrates Earth Month through a series of events through April 29 across the East Liverpool, Kent and Stark campuses. “We hope that the variety of Earth Month events will allow students with different interests to engage, learn about sustainability on campus and take action,” says Melanie Knowles, sustainability manager for Kent State’s facilities planning and operations. The Office of Sustainability collaborated on activities and works...

Research shows that women are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than men by a 3-to-2 margin. Some scientists believe this is because when women reach menopause, their bodies cease to produce estrogen, and the pituitary gland begins over-producing another hormone, luteinizing hormone (LH), to try to jump-start the ovaries. Gemma Casadesus Smith, an associate professor of biological sciences in Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences, plans to test those beliefs in mice using a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Instit...

There are many events in April and May related to the environment, plants, and conservation.  Details are below.  (CHH=Cunningham Hall, Kent campus)   April Earth Month Events Wednesday April 12th (3-6 pm) Wellness Refresh Event at University Bookstore Week(s) April 17th - April 28th  Biological Sciences & Art Department Painted Rain Barrel Project on display at The KSU Wick Poetry Center Gardens. Monday, April 17th  (Basement of CHH/1-3PM) Plant pressing techniques (Student Organization- Herrick Conservatory & Sustainability ...

A unique partnership is helping to spread the “word” about migration, literally. Powerful and inspiring words are ringing throughout 11 cities in the United States, as a result of Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center joining 22 other nonprofit poetry organizations to form a Poetry Coalition. Together the coalition presented programs on the theme “Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration.” The theme borrows a line from U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s poem, “Borderbus.” This month, the Akron Art Museum will host a poetry reading and ribbon cutt...

Beginning July 1, 2017, Kent State University will become a smoke-free, tobacco-free campus. The new policy is part of the university’s healthy campus initiative, Kent State of Wellness. It is one of the university-level initiatives in the strategic roadmap to a distinctive Kent State. “It’s who we are; we are striving to be a healthier community,” said Kim Hauge, director of employee wellness at Kent State. “We have appreciated the time since the passing of the policy last May to the actual implementation in July, as this has allotted us the time necessary to educate employees, students...